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categorise

Syllables: cat·e·go·rise

categorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of categorize.

Meaning of categorize

Verb

categorize (third-person singular simple present categorizes, present participle categorizing, simple past and past participle categorized)

  1. (transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.
    • First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.

Antonyms of categorise

Forms of categorise

third-person singular presentcategorises
present participlecategorising
past participlecategorised
pastcategorised

Origin of categorise

From category + -ise.

Words formed from categorise

Questions about categorise

What is categorise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Categorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of categorize.

Words near categorise in the dictionary

  1. categorifying
  2. categorisability
  3. categorisable
  4. categorisation
  5. categorisations
  6. categorise
  7. categorised
  8. categoriser
  9. categorisers
  10. categorises
  11. categorising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: categorise (page history and authors); categorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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